Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…

Christ is the end of the Law: the end; ¹not finis destructivus, to destroy the Law: such he had been indeed, had he ⟨p. 146⟩come to have brought in any other Law in the room of this holy and perfect Law; ²but, saith he, I came not to destroy. What end then? ³why Finis perfectivus, the perfection and accomplishment of the Law; not to destroy, but to fulfil, sc. the end of the Law for Righteousness: i. e. to the end, that by Christ his active Obedience, God might have his perfect Law, perfectly kept; that so there might be a Righteousness extant in the Humane Nature, every way adequate to the perfection of the Law: And who must wear this Garment of Righteousness, when Christ hath finished it? surely the Believer, who wanted a Righteousness of his own; for so it follows, for Righteousness to every one that believeth, that is, that every poor naked Sinner believing in Jesus Christ, might have a Righteousness, wherein being found, he might appear at Gods Tribunal, but his nakedness not appear; but as Jacob in the Garment of his Elder Brother Esau, so the Believer in the Garment of his Elder Brother, Jesus, might inherit the Blessing, even the great Blessing of Justification. This leads me to an 8th. Proposition, and that is

Christ is the end of the Law: the end; ¹not finis destructivus, to destroy the Law: such he had been indeed, had he ⟨p. 146⟩come to have brought in any other Law in the room of this holy and perfect Law; ²but, saith he, I came not to destroy. What end then? ³why Finis perfectivus, the perfection and accomplishment of the Law; not to destroy, but to fulfill, sc. the end of the Law for Righteousness: i. e. to the end, that by Christ his active Obedience, God might have his perfect Law, perfectly kept; that so there might be a Righteousness extant in the Humane Nature, every way adaequate to the perfection of the Law: And who must wear this Garment of Righteousness, when Christ hath finished it? surely the Believer, who wanted a Righteousness of his own; for so it follows, for Righteousness to every one that believeth, that is, that every poor naked Sinner believing in Jesus Christ, might have a Righteousness, wherein being found, he might appear at Gods Tribunal, but his nakedness not appear; but as Jacob in the Garment of his Elder Brother Esau, so the Believer in the Garment of his Elder Brother, Jesus, might inherit the Blessing, even the great Blessing of Justification. This leads me to an 8th. Proposition, and that is